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Hey tweeps - How did YOU get ready for #nasatweetup?  This is was NASA was working on...

Driving down FL-528 tonight, I was looking down the long and creepy highway when I noticed some lights ahead.  It took an embarassingly long length of time to realize that they were stars.  You see, around New York City, you rarely see stars. And when you do, it's just one or two; not a field across the sky. 

The talk I gave at the New York Future Salon is now available!

The 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall has a lot of people thinking existentially, and their insights illuminate some interesting aspects of how we think about the past and future.

There are at least 4 stages of intelligence levels that AI will have to get through to get to the take-over-the-world level. In Beyond AI I refered to them as hypohuman, diahuman, epihuman, and hyperhuman; but just for fun let’s use fake species names:

* Robo insectis: rote, mechanical gadgets (or thinkers) with hand-coded skills, such as Roomba or industrial robots or automated call-center systems or dictation programs.
* Robo habilis: Rosie the housemaid robot level intelligence, able to handle service level jobs in the real world but not a rocket scientist.

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